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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown